Koreans carry on traditional leftist impotent and ineffective reponse to an attack: candles, not confrontation.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) – A purported Taliban spokesman claimed Saturday that the hard-line militia had killed two German and five Afghan hostages but the Afghan government partly denied that, saying one German had died of a heart attack and the other was still alive.

Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, also said the militants were willing to release 23 South Korean hostages in exchange for imprisoned Taliban fighters. He said the Afghan and South Korean governments had until Sunday evening to agree to the exchange of 23 Taliban militants or the Korean hostages would be killed.

Europe, the Killer Continent

[T]he notion that Europe, the continent that’s exported more death and destruction than any other, is going to just shuffle wimpily to its doom is crazy. The Europeans have been playing pacifist dress-up while [America] protected them, but, sufficiently threatened, they’ll revert to their historical pattern – which is to over-react. Europe’s Muslims may prove to be the real endangered species; after all, Europe’s history of dealing with rejected minorities veers between genocide and, for the lucky, ethnic cleansing. For me, the question isn’t whether Muslims will take over Europe, but whether Europe will simply expel them or kill any number of them first. Sound far-fetched? How would the Holocaust have sounded to an educated German (or Brit, or American) in 1932? Europe is a killer continent. When the chips are down, it will kill again.

Meanwhile, Europe’s Muslims are behaving so stupidly that their folly can’t be measured with any tools at our disposal. Even as British pols pander to radical clerics, the average Brit has had enough of coddling mullahs who preach the destruction of all non-Muslims (and closing the pubs). In mid-July, in Germany, the major organizations representing the millions of Turkish residents refused to come to a conference held by the chancellor to address integration. The Turkish leaders demanded – demanded – that the German parliament first rescind a new immigration law that would have prevented Turks from importing child-brides, isolating them as virtual prisoners and beating them to death. Oh, and the Germans also wanted new immigrants to have a vocabulary of 300 German words upon arrival – just enough to say, “Help, husband killing me.” No self-respecting Turk was going to stand for that.

You get the point. Europe has never had a model for integrating non-white immigrants, and they don’t really want one. Meanwhile, from Denmark to Marseilles, Muslim residents make outrageous demands that only anger the average voter. Eurabia? You have a better chance of finding honest lobbyists in Washington than you do of seeing the crescent over the spires of Notre Dame.

Those Oppressed Muslims

1. to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.

2. to put down; subdue or suppress.

3. to press upon or against , crush.

Whilst discussing Islam with an apostate friend, as I often do for his invaluable insight, I raised the subject of the “Muslim as victim” mindset so often heard from people of that faith and his quick reply left me momentarily non-plussed “ it’s because they all consider themselves to be oppressed”…. “what ?,… even those who live freely in Western democracies?” I asked….. “Muslims simply have a different idea of what constitutes oppression” was his response. The conversation that ensued prompted me to try and add some flesh to the bones of his revelation.

It’s difficult to understand how anyone fleeing to the United States or a European welfare state, from any Muslim country, could possibly describe themselves as oppressed. Compared to their undemocratic and invariably corrupt homelands, complete with secret police, hell-hole prisons for dissenters, no welfare safety nets and little chance of a better life for their children, one would think that life in the egalitarian West with its higher living standard, equality for all under the law, better health services and employment opportunities, would seem, to a Muslim émigré, like heaven on earth. After all, they are at liberty to practice their religion, build mosques and go about their lives unhindered, dress as they wish and educate their children to a standard impossible in their native lands. No aspect of the dictionary definition above could possibly seem applicable to them, yet, oppressed they still claim to be. Interviews with, or press-release statements by, any Muslim spokesperson are seldom complete without at least one reference to “oppressed Muslims”.

As I pointed out in a previous article, Islamic definitions of certain terms and concepts are often wildly at odds with how the rest of the non-Muslims world understands them. In the article I examined how Islam defines the word “peace”. A state of peace, in the way that Islam defines it, can only come to fruition when the entire world either converts, or submits as second-class humiliated subjects, to Islamic rule and the entire world thereby becomes dar-al Islam ( the domain of Islam). In the meantime, a state of perpetual war must prevail until that objective is attained. So the non-Muslim world — dar-al harb (the domain of war ) — will continue to be confronted, eroded and weakened, from within and without, by any and every means possible, till submissive acceptance is universal and there is no longer any resistance (fitna). Resistance is therefore synonymous with oppression and conversely, in a somewhat Orwellian paradox, …..“Submission equals freedom” .

“The seeming contradiction stems from the Western notion of “freedom” and “oppression” and radical Islam’s different view of those two terms. For radicals in al Qaeda, the dichotomy between “freedom” and “oppression” is wholly founded on whether sharia law is made supreme in the world; that is, whether every single man, woman, and child — both Muslim and non-Muslim — lives under the mandates of Islamic law. If they do, they are considered “free”; if not, as the case is today, the mass of humanity is considered “oppressed.”

Oppression, as Islam sees it, can be defined as any obstacle or impediment which prevents the implementation of Islamic rule on Earth, which is the only final outcome acceptable to Allah. Any infidel failing to respond positively to the da’wa, ( the call or invitation to Islam) whether by outright rejection, disinclination or indifference, is considered to be not only oppressing Muslims– by rejecting the mission they are duty-bound to carry out— but more seriously, insulting Allah by impeding and thwarting his divine plan for humanity.

[the] role and the duty of Islam [is] to fulfill its mandate as revealed by Allah to the Prophet Mohammed. That mandate remains to call all of mankind to Islam, da’wa in the fulfillment of God’s will and importantly to help ensure Islam’s unimpeded triumph throughout the world.

[A] critical theme of Malik’s work is that “just war”, or jihad, in Islam is inherently spiritual warfare, religious warfare, and to the extent that Islamic forces have spiritually prepared themselves, they will “strike terror into the hearts” of Islam’s enemies. This terror as Malik describes in detail, is both physical and metaphysical, because Islamic warfare is intrinsically part of a cosmic struggle for the reign of Allah’s will on earth between the forces of God, dar al-Islam, and that of dar al-Harb, those who dwell in ignorance and darkness of the true knowledge of God.

When a believer sees that someone is trying to obstruct another believer from travelling on the road that leads to God, [the] spirit of Jihad requires that such a man who is imposing obstacles should be prevented from doing so and the obstacles placed by him should also be removed, so that mankind may freely be able to negotiate its own path that leads to Heaven. To omit to do this is a culpable omission, if only because by not striving to clear or straighten the path we become passive spectators of the counter-initiatory forces imposing a blockade in the way of those who mean to keep their faith with God.

——–Brigadier S.K. Malik : “The Quranic Concept of War”

Note how, in the above excerpt, Malik euphemistically refers to the unconverted as “counter-initiatory forces” as even a nonchalant indifference to Islam is deemed to be placing “obstacles” in the path of its progress. Subscribing to the dictum “you’re either with us or against us”, no neutral position is possible for the infidel. Failure to convert and fall in with them and, by doing so, facilitate their mission, is regarded negatively as defiant rejection, an insulting slap in the face for Allah and his “final revelation”, Islam.

“And fight on, until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere.” These injunctions laid down the ultimate and absolute divine purpose.”

“Islam views the world as though it were bipolarised in two opposing camps-Dar us-Salm facing Darul-Harb–the first one is submissive to the Lord in co-operating with God’s purpose to establish peace, order and such other precon — the same Lord. Such a state of affairs which engages any one in rebellion against God’s will is termed as “Fitna”–which word literally means test or trial.

The term “Fitna ” refers us to misconduct on the part of a man who establishes his own norms and expects obedience from others, thereby usurping God’s authority — who alone is sovereign. In Sura Infa’al Chapter 8, Verse 39, it is said “And fight on until there remains no more tumult or oppression and they remain submissive only to God.” To the same effect are the words used in Sura Toba Verse 9, “Fight those who believe not in Allah, nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which has been forbidden by [the] lord and His Apostle nor acknowledge the religion of truth (even if they are) of the people of the book, (i.e. Jews and Christians) until they pay Jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”

—– Allah Bukhsh K. Brohi : Preface to “The Quranic Concept of War”

So there you have it, if you are not a Muslim, your mere unconverted existence is, in itself, an act of fitna ,“oppressing” Islam and Muslims.

Of great and urgent concern to my friend, and to many other Muslim apostates — all of whom are intimately familiar with the minutiae of Islam — is the inability, or reluctance of Western people to grasp the implications of the hidden, finer details, the “small-print” if you will, contained in Islam’s determined and highly focused millennial mission.

Every human group and culture has subtly nuanced idiosyncrasies which, in order to understand a culture or religion, need to be identified and studied in detail. If we are to have any hope of comprehending what religious and cultural notions motivate the Muslim’s thinking processes and actions — and what impact they are likely to have on a given set of circumstances it is imperative that we develop a deeper insight into the more subtle and esoteric concepts that inspire them. As for our own culture, the Muslims know and understand our proclivities only too well, they know which buttons to press in order to achieve the desired effect. At the mere mention of words such as “racism, Islamophobia, oppression, victimization etc,” the flow of debate is abruptly stanched and criticism silenced, Westerners, as if on cue, collapse, en masse, in a quivering and blushing heap of post-colonial guilt and become effusive in their apologies for anything, and everything, from the crusades to climate change. So, unless and until the West is prepared to stop being mesmerized by the superficialities, the distracting sideshows, of Islam, and starts focusing the microscope deeper into its more conceptual aspects, Islam’s relentless and incremental progress toward its final goal will proceed unhindered with its concomitant rage at our intransigence.

Surging success in Iraq

John B. Dwyer
“Our forces continue to strike wherever they hide,” is how Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman Major Mark Young described a series of recent coalition raids targeted on Al Qaeda cells and cell leaders. Here is a recap:

1. 10 buildings raided south of Baghdad looking for cell leader. 2 terrorists killed by coalition forces as they approached first building. 16 suspects detained in process of securing remaining objectives.
2. Terrorist attempting to set up automatic weapon killed during another raid and 10 suspects detained.
3. Two terrorists suspected of involvement in AQ media operations detained (see previously posted item in major AQI media center discovery)
4. East of Ramadi, alleged financial “emir” and 4 associates detained. “Emir” recently returned from Syria where he’d been facilitating weapons shipments into Iraq.
5. In Mosul, 8 terrorist suspects detained in raid targeted against AQ “emir” of that city.